[a European mercenary] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [a European mercenary]
Period: 1850-1900;
Description: Here we see a mercenary soldier on the battlefield, holding a musket with bayonet attachment. Gulliver explains that mercenary troops were available for hire for any nation, and thus did not necessitate a patriotic army. When Swift wrote Gulliver’s Travels in 1727, mercenary troops were common, and we are just beginning to see national armies. The same image appears in both the 1839 and 1843 Krabbe editions.
Image Creator: Rambert (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Vignettes
Identifier: mta:21454
Language: ger
Source Name: Gulliver's Reisen in unbekannte Länder
Parent Collection: 1870 Stuttgart Grandville; 1870 Stuttgart Grandville
Image: mta_21454_OBJ.png
Collection: Gulliver's Travels
Subject: Mercenary troops; Mercenary troops in literature; satire; politics in literature; fictional works; Fictitious characters; imaginary places; imaginary creatures